Great Ideas for Small Prefab Homes

If Lego and Ikea ever decided to collaborate, they may have imagined up something like the KitHaus. The KitHaus series of modern prefab modules contains limitless configuration possibilities, giving you the opportunity to design a one-of-a-kind space just for you.

Inspired by a semi-circular bicycle shelter and bike rack, House Arc is an affordable housing solution by Bellomo Architects. Its most prominent feature is a tubular steel armature, sheathed in translucent polycarbonate plastic coated with a solar film.

This small prefabricated home serves as a mobile studio for international artists, who will be invited to stay and work for a period of time in the Netherlands. The house is constructed from solid, laminated sheets of European softwood, and is stable enough to be lifted and transported in one piece on public roads.

This prefabricated cabin is a cube-shaped structure constructed from bales of straw. It includes a small interior space with two floors and an attic, and a hovering terrace with a “lookout” overlooking the Swiss Alps.

Located in East Hampton, NY, this small prefabricated home is the residence of a writer. It’s essentially a one large room, comprised of brackets and arms that can be secured to steel columns, also supporting a suspended fireplace mantel, cabinetry and the bookshelves walkway around the perimeter of the library.

Hive Modular, who brought us the prefab container cabin in Holyoke, shines again with this small, prefabricated home, which sits on an urban residential lot with a pitched roof, fiber cement exterior cladding and large glass openings.

This small prefab is a one bedroom, one bathroom home. It has an efficient flat roof that is great for solar panels and roof gardens and various sidings, from reclaimed wood to metal and stucco to low maintenance concrete.

This small prefab is actually a two-story home extension. It sits on a small site of 3.50 meters width and 11.50 meters long, therefore non-traditional constructive methods and materials were chosen for this project.

This wooden, prefabricated home with its geometric Aluminum facades is located in north Scandinavia. Due to the extreme weather conditions, this house is quite small so that it provides considerable economical and ecological benefits.